Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
AGA KHAN IVThe Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.
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Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples.
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One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.
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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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None of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another.
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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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Indeed, one strength of Islam has always lain in its belief that creation is not static but continuous, that through scientific and other endeavours.
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Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.
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Nor do these two involve any contradiction, provided man remembers that his own mind is itself the creation of God. Without this humility, no balance is possible. With it, there are no barriers.
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In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue of his own intellect.
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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